By harnessing the power of music, teachers can create a lively and dynamic atmosphere that also improves concentration, focus, and retention.

As curriculums move away from an emphasis on content to skills, the time is right to use that move as an opportunity to better serve introverts in school.

Teaching is a great responsibility. I teach English and believe that the ability to communicate, at a personal and societal level, is what builds strong communities and ensures ownership over one’s future. Thus, it’s important that we teachers spend a lot of time on our craft—deliberating the best ways to teach and make lessons fun, interactive, and relatable to students. Professional development thrives on discipline pedagogy and school departments meet to align goals and assignments and to discuss data assessment.

In-person instruction has been a common source of stress during what I have dubbed “The Year of COVID,” with instructions on how to teach changing by the second.

As soon as I utter the words “writing assignment,” looks of panic appear on my students’ faces. Their hands shoot up like rockets and the questions immediately start.

Many students dread reading Shakespeare because they think his works have nothing to do with their 21st century interests.

The benefits of play-based learning are huge, and we shouldn’t be depriving our children of it just because they are getting older.

To help boys succeed in school they need to feel connected.

We ask students questions all day long, but how do we know they are actually helping students learn and, more importantly, getting them to think?